Women, Work and Marriage in Urban India

Based on a study of dual- and single-earner couples in Bangalore city, this book argues that social and cultural contexts preclude women from using their economic status to fundamentally alter the domestic order.

The author asserts that the wife's paid work has not resulted in a universal change of attitudes toward gender-related issues. Instead, the wife's paid work has become part of her obligations, thus nullifying the power of economic resource as an instrument of change in her domestic status.